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I'm taking my last vacation day for fiscal year 2009 today. This morning I'm going to be joining the Longmont Senior Center's knitting group. They're the organization that accepts my charitable knitting for distribution among Adopt-a-Family, Head Start, and the VA hospital.

They're nice ladies, and I try to get up there a couple times a year.

But this afternoon...this afternoon.

This afternoon I have to go visit that freaky horror show, the Colorado DMV. The photo on my driver's license doesn't look a thing like me now that I've gone au naturale with my Hot Hair, and I'm afraid it's only a matter of time before the TSA pulls me aside for some "special counseling."

I'm sure the experience will give me plenty write about, a la Jim Wright's Things That Chap My Ass. Although the title may be, Things That Make Me Run Screaming Into the Night in Search of High Powered Weapons.

Getting a new photo takes about 30 min at the most, has been in and out. Plates to replace a lost plate, while a replacement is ordered and arrives, is equally fast. They have plate pairs in the counter drawer.

Y'know, the DMV in Morgantown--unless you go on the first day of the month when they're swamped--is pretty nice.

Fast service, and when we were getting my grandmother's non-drivers ID, they were awesome in helping us (she didn't have everything she needed, and they accepted her birth certification which was all but handwritten by the local priest when she was born.

In Ohio we're finally able to go to whatever DMV we want (instead of "the closest to home address" or "in your home county"). While it's a bit of a drive, the office in Middlefield is hardly ever busy, in and out in less than half an hour. I love that law.

Interestingly enough - WA has offloaded vehicle title, licensing, and vehicle license renewal to private contractors in a different office, so the DMV only handles people licensing. It cuts down on the wait. :)

About Me

I am a Hot Chick living in Castle Rock, CO with my fabulous family. We have a rescue dog named "Jackson," and she's a Basenji/Shepherd mix. She's something of a head case, but we love her. I'm a U.S. Navy vet, and I currently work as an Enterprise Solutions Architect, specializing in VoIP and multimedia contact center design. I care about social justice, libraries, science, the U.S. Constitution and the military. I serve as a Director on our local library's Foundation Board. I'm a tax and spend liberal in a largely red county, but I try not to be stabby about it. I aspire to run faster than I do, and I donate knitted cold weather gear to various charities. Stupidity, cupidity and wanton assholery piss me off, and I'm more than a little soft when it comes to dogs and those who serve others. I blog about whatever I feel like. I use foul language, so if that sort of thing offends you, feel free to fuck off now - if I'm unwilling to clean up my language for my fabulous Great Auntie Margie, I'm unlikely to do so for you. Newcomers are welcome here, especially those who disagree with me, but trolling and spamming will be met with the Shovel of Doom™.